John Chapter 11 verse 50 Holy Bible
nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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You do not see that it is in your interest for one man to be put to death for the people, so that all the nation may not come to destruction.
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nor consider that it is profitable for you that one man die for the people, and not that the whole nation perish.
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Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
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nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish."
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nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 50. - Nor consider; or, nor do ye take account. Hengstenberg shows that where this verb (λογίζεσθε) elsewhere occurs, it is used intransitively, and with this Godet agrees; then they take ὅτι, as "because" or for it is expedient for you (the text ὑμῖν is preferred by Meyer, Godet, Westcott and Herr, and the Revised. The chief difference in thought is that it makes the language somewhat more dogmatic, Caiaphas hardly classing himself for the moment with such irresolute companions) that one man should die for ("on behalf of" amounting to "instead of") the people - i.e. for the theocratic organization, whose were the promises, to whom was given the dominion- and not that the entire nation (the political aggregation) perish. Some have supposed (like Lange) Divine purpose lurking in the ἵνα; but it was rather the maxim of worldly expediency of half-paganized superstition allied in this form to the sacrifice of Codrus, or of Iphigenia, viz. that the extinction of guiltless and innocent victims may be demanded by political necessity, and must be determined upon at once, by the chief court of equity and criminal judicature in the nation. If, thought he, the multitudes accept this Sabbath-breaker, this Worker of miracles, this religious Enthusiast, this moral Reformer, for their Messiah, the Romans will crush the movement, will stamp out the entire religious order; "we" shall be annihilated as a power, the "nation" will be abolished as such. It is more expedient that this one man should suffer than that the whole of our position should be sacrificed.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(50) Nor consider that it is expedient for us . . .--This remarkable counsel has linked itself in St. John's thoughts with the name of Caiaphas. He quotes it again in John 18:14.Should die for the people, and that the whole nation . . .--Different words are used here in the Greek, as in the English. The former word represents the theocratic people, those who were united together as the servants of God; the latter word is that which is used in John 11:48, and represents the political nation as one of the nations of the earth.
